June 13, 2007
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Linspire Inc. on June 13 announced an agreement to license voice-enabled instant messaging, Windows Media 10 CODECs, and TrueType font technologies from Microsoft for its Linux distribution. Additionally, Microsoft will offer protection to Linspire customers against possible violations of Microsoft … Continue reading
June 11, 2007
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Microsoft and Linux distributor Xandros on June 4 signed a broad set of collaboration and patent agreements that reminded many of the November 2006 Microsoft/Novell partnership. What do analysts and other Linux vendors think this new deal means for Linux? … Continue reading
May 29, 2007
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Patent fights are fights about money. The secondary issue, the one that makes the headlines, is control. To really understand whats going on in the current patent posturing involving Microsoft, Novell, and a host of open-source companies and groups, it … Continue reading
May 28, 2007
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Most of the Novell/Microsoft patent deal is now out in the public. With this, the veil has been lifted in part from this controversial patent partnership. With this unveiling we now know that there is still no proof, other than … Continue reading
May 14, 2007
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 14 claimed that “Linux violates over 228 patents. Someday, for all countries that are entering WTO [the World Trade Organization], somebody will come and look for money to pay for the patent rights for … Continue reading
February 25, 2007
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Along the lines of early efforts to derail SCO’s claims that Linux infringes Unix copyrights, a gentleman going by the moniker, “digduality” has decided to fight recent claims by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer that Linux infringes on Microsoft patents, by … Continue reading